Are Single Coil Users More Fastidious Then Humbucker Users?

Re: Are Single Coil Users More Fastidious Then Humbucker Users?

The Golden Boy said:
It's true. Single Coil players are much better dressers, better at doing crossword puzzles and meticulous about oral hygiene. Stats bear it out.
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Yes, I've read that somewhere too. I believe it was in a peer reviewed scientific journal of statistics.


What's a humbucker?



Cheers........................wahwah
 
Re: Are Single Coil Users More Fastidious Then Humbucker Users?

JohnnyGuitar said:
It's only my impression lately, and I might be wrong,
But...
There's some sort of attitude that guitarist who use single coils have that's more capricious then guys who use humbuckers - I just don't hear it from humbucker users.

That's because you probably spend your time talking to your like-minded Fender buddies. Us humbucker boys spend countless hours talking about tone, coils, windings, magnets, pots, etc, but looks like you don't travel in those circles.

Funny how SC guys always seem to be looking down their noses at us, like we're some uneducated, unwashed heathens. What did we ever do to them? Will they ever accept us as equals (not that I'm losing sleep over this)?
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Re: Are Single Coil Users More Fastidious Then Humbucker Users?

I have become more picky about singles because of playing a Strat....I know I want my bridge pup to sound good with the middle pup and the neck pup.....I also want the neck pup to sound good with the middle.

I notice that there are still a lot of players who play a single humbucker equipped guitar...that simplifies things a lot.
 
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After I stopped bothering and just kept to the playing side of things...
I do not care....most will sound like I want it to by now...
That is why I have a mix of guitars....and never splits coils, only uses parallel and seriel bucker setup, and wire all my singles to a tonepot...
 
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OK,

I'm convinced - SC users are not more capricious then humbucker users.
Most of them... there are marketers who get a little hysterical about the subject (Kinman's long explanations about how to make the best pup)... but after heating a few humbuckers that split really well, nd a few dead sounding single coils (Fender stocks...) I have to say, as regarding to sound quality and authenticity - we hear what we want to hear...
 
Re: Are Single Coil Users More Fastidious Then Humbucker Users?

Of course. There will always be people who will "never play a Gibson" or "hate all strats" but most sensible guitar [players (as opposed to guitar owners) know from experience that there are pros and cons to everything... except maybe cranking an amp and turning the treble to 11...
 
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Good single coils sound more alive. They look at a narrower portion of the string, so the sound they produce is more specific. They reproduce all the beautiful chiming harmonics all the way into where your ears can't hear anymore. The can sound angelic. Humbuckers can't. They can sound great and airy and powerful and obviously they distort well, but the reason people are into single coils is that there is MORE. That feeling a good tele has, where it seems to respond to your every move? Only single coils do that for me. There's more expression. When distorted, more tone comes through.

For me it comes down to clarity. Clarity clarity clarity. Distortion is under clarity. You can get to distortion and earthy thuddy noises from clarity but you can't go from muddy to clear! Once you fall in love with The Truth, that hyper responsive, acoustic guitar sound, with all the textures and colors of the universe, it is hard to play with humbuckers.

I am jonesing for some lace alumitones. The lace sensors I highly recommend. They sound a bit perfect, but the holy grail set is a really beautiful set of pickups. The alumitones apparently give you that great humbucker tonal response (can't beat the bass notes on a gretsch or les paul, loud, with distortion) but with that god-on-high responsiveness and clarity.

CLARITY!!
 
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Also:

I think I speak for the entire SC when I say, a good P90 has twice the balls and three times the sack of any humbucker! Speak truth to power!
 
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Kivitel said:
Also:

I think I speak for the entire SC when I say, a good P90 has twice the balls and three times the sack of any humbucker! Speak truth to power!
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YES!!!!
 
Re: Are Single Coil Users More Fastidious Then Humbucker Users?

JohnnyGuitar said:
It's only my impression lately, and I might be wrong,
But... There's some sort of attitude that guitarist who use single coils have that's more capricious then guys who use humbuckers - Always trying to nail that vintage strat voicing... No hum canceling pup can nail the tone of a true humming single coil No split humbucker can catch the true voicing of a vintage SC The stagger, the output...
The quack and the thwack and the twang - there are not enough words in the dictionary to describe what we are trying to say... I just don't hear it from humbucker users. So, Are single coil users too fastidious?
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Hmm Fastidious, not found in dictionary. Capricious: 1. subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic.

Other than the human norm, I don't think I'm capricious. I'm someone who fell in love with single coil pickups first, humbuckers second, yet loves them all for what they are, or at least that's what I try to be. I'm not trying to nail vintage strat voicing. I have a Lite Ash strat, and 3x A2Ps goodness through a Twin Reverb is hard to beat, but I like how it sounds, not how it sounds like someone else. In fact, I can't think of who else it sounds like, really. The guitar came stock with SD single coils, so I like it because I didn't have to mod it. I like my Showmaster for that reason. As for quack, it had to be explained to me, but I knew what it was. Twang I already knew, but reading about surf music helped me more fully understand it.

Bottom line to me is that a guitar comes stock with SD pickups, so I don't lose money on modding it. I love the clarity of Duncans, and the versatility they give, whether Strat or humbucker. I'll eventually own one with filtertrons, and one with P-90's (probably semi-hollow). I want to own one of each, and learn to be versatile with them all as a player. That's me.

"You're unique ... just like everyone else." :D

And for what it's worth, no pickup is better than another: they're all equal, just "gifted" in different ways, if you catch my drift. I can't play Metallica with a vintage neck single coil in the neck any more than I can play surf with an Invader. :D Different roles, but no pickup can do everything :D
 
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TwinReverb said:
Hmm Fastidious, not found in dictionary. Capricious: 1. subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic.

Other than the human norm, I don't think I'm capricious. I'm someone who fell in love with single coil pickups first, humbuckers second, yet loves them all for what they are, or at least that's what I try to be. I'm not trying to nail vintage strat voicing. I have a Lite Ash strat, and 3x A2Ps goodness through a Twin Reverb is hard to beat, but I like how it sounds, not how it sounds like someone else. In fact, I can't think of who else it sounds like, really. The guitar came stock with SD single coils, so I like it because I didn't have to mod it. I like my Showmaster for that reason. As for quack, it had to be explained to me, but I knew what it was. Twang I already knew, but reading about surf music helped me more fully understand it.

Bottom line to me is that a guitar comes stock with SD pickups, so I don't lose money on modding it. I love the clarity of Duncans, and the versatility they give, whether Strat or humbucker. I'll eventually own one with filtertrons, and one with P-90's (probably semi-hollow). I want to own one of each, and learn to be versatile with them all as a player. That's me.

"You're unique ... just like everyone else." :D

And for what it's worth, no pickup is better than another: they're all equal, just "gifted" in different ways, if you catch my drift. I can't play Metallica with a vintage neck single coil in the neck any more than I can play surf with an Invader. :D Different roles, but no pickup can do everything :D
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You should have read a little more then the title... I didn't say SCs are better then HBs. I was talking about choosing specifications, "nailing" the tone, etc...

I didn't mean that guys who use single coils have better taste... I meant that they do have some sort of capricious behavior about what's the right tone and what's not the right tone for a single coil.
 
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alex1fly said:
Of course. There will always be people who will "never play a Gibson" or "hate all strats" but most sensible guitar [players (as opposed to guitar owners) know from experience that there are pros and cons to everything... except maybe cranking an amp and turning the treble to 11...
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Only a Gibson is good enough! I hate EVERYTHING else! not just Strats!:smash:
 
Re: Are Single Coil Users More Fastidious Then Humbucker Users?

There's been so much talk about the EVH humbucker that no one should think so.
 
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